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The Laker Learning Futures Initiative brings together faculty with inspiration to experiment with innovative pedagogies and technologies in teaching. As part of this initiative, faculty members at GVSU who enjoy exploring the future of learning and new technologies in teaching, are invited to join the Faculty Futures Team.

As part of a select group of early adopter faculty, you will be among the first to accelerate and incubate ideas as well as beta test new tools for education, while providing valuable feedback as the university designs the next generation of teaching and learning environments.

To join, please complete the sign-up form, and we will be in touch soon with next steps!

Innovation OPEN House

Are you a faculty member interested in the latest opportunities for teaching and learning innovations? Missed the Innovation OPEN House that was held on Tuesday February 6 from 2-5pm in the futureEDlab in Zumberge 3015?

Check out this blog post and highlight! "Uncovering the Future of Education at the Innovation OPEN House"

The event was sponsored by the Laker Learning Futures initiative and IT Innovation + Research. At the open house, like-minded faculty gathered to learn about programs like Laker Learning Futures and the Faculty Futures Team, as well as engaged hands-on with some new and useful technologies for teaching.

Current Projects

Digital Inking

Discovering, evaluating, and analyzing the pedagogical affordances of digital inking for teaching and learning at GVSU. Digital inking enables annotation, handwriting, interactive whiteboarding (instead of traditional whiteboards), and pen-based input offering greater flexibility and interactivity with on screen content.

• Wacom One 
• One by Wacom
• Dell 7430 2-in-1

Mobile Zoom Room Interactive Displays

This project involves evaluating Zoom Room videoconferencing capabilities in a mobile format with interactivity. These mobile carts can instantly create a Zoom Room experience without the need for a permanent install, offering flexibility. Finally, the interactive touch screen provides unique whiteboard activities. Additionally, mobile speaker, camera, and microphone technology to provide a roaming Zoom Room capability.

Carts

• Neat Board
• DTEN D7X

Devices

• Owl Pro
• Panasonic PressIT360
• IPEVO Totem 360

Learning Glass Mobile Video Capture

While GVSU offers a variety of lightboard recording studios, this project seeks to evaluate the use of eGlass as a portable and flexible option for faculty seeking to generate unique video production capabilities. Additionally, the eGlass could be used in a live classroom setting.

• eGlass

Wireless Presentation

Increasing flexibility in the classroom to share mobile screens in support of digital inking and wireless display of content.

• Apple TV
• Ditto
• Pilot X Hovercam

More to come!

Here are a few of our areas of interest:

• Active Learning Classrooms
• Interactive Large Screen Displays
• Advanced Hybrid Teaching and Meeting Technologies
• Extended Reality (Virtual, Augmented, Mixed) and Volumetric Video
• ...

Connect with Us!

Have a faculty futures idea? Would you like to learn more?

Please contact:

• Robert Talbert
  Presidential Fellow for the Advancement of Learning, Professor of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Eric Kunnen
  Senior Director, Information Technology Division, Innovation + Research
• Jacob Fortman
  Emerging Technologies Research Analyst, Information Technology Division, Innovation + Research

Additional Faculty Resources at GVSU

eLearning Technologies

• The Information Technology Division's eLearning Technologies team offers instructional design, digital media development, and support in the use of instructional technologies, including the University's learning management system.

Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center

• The Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center provides a wide array of faculty services to promote a scholarly approach to teaching and learning, such as Faculty Learning Communities. Further, the FTLC offers a series of grants, including the Teaching Innovation Grant, which is intended to support faculty pursuing innovative projects.